Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

Everything starts with the customer.

Anybody can Earn and Die, leaving a will and legacy. Only the courageous ones can give away all they have while they are Alive.

Face your problems head on. Do what you have to do to take care of it. Develop a good work ethic.

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.

Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

You cannot teach somebody how to relate to the kids, they have to come with it.

A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms!

What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.